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No National I.D Number, No International Passport – Nigerian Immigration Makes Important Announcement

Anyone without the National Identification Number formally issued by the National Identity Management Commission, won't have the capac...

Anyone without the National Identification Number formally issued by the National Identity Management Commission, won't have the capacity to get Nigerian international ID, a divulgence by FG has uncovered.

The Nigeria migration Service has announced that from January 1, 2018, anyone without National Identification Number won't have the capacity to obtain Nigerian international ID.

The Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Immigration Service, Mohammed Babandede, uncovered this to State House journalists after a meeting of database harmonization board of trustees held inside the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

As per him, the condition applies to both first-time candidates and those recharging their terminated report.

He expressed that the choice was taken as a component of the Federal Government's endeavors to facilitate the way toward working together in the nation.

"The harmonization of information and requires every one of us to act however the most serious issue we are confronting is that everyone is conveying his own innovation.

"There is a reasonable sense of duty regarding this. We have concurred that from January 1, 2018, anyone who will apply for Nigerian Passport, regardless of whether reestablishment or crisp application, should first have a national personality number.

"Why we are doing this is we need to ease business for Nigeria. There is no requirement for you to go and have your biometrics caught by NIMC and afterward you come and catch again with the Nigeria Immigrations.

"When you give us your NIN, we will gather the biometrics from NIMC and create your identification. That is the aim to do in all different offices," he said.

The movement supervisor included that he had coordinated that have likewise given mandate that licenses of outsiders inhabitant in Nigeria ought not be reestablished without NIN.

As indicated by him "All NIMC staff can work in our visa office. Along these lines, when you come to get your international ID, you can likewise get the national personality card.

"The NIMC has additionally permitted movement staff to work in their workplaces. Thus, anyone who is coming to assert Nigerian citizenship, they will distinguish that national. That is the collaboration that we have had up until this point,"

"Government is stating that when you need to gather any office from any administration organization, you don't have to search for the archive from whatever other government office. We ought to have the capacity to get to it, we ought to have the capacity to know whether you have paid your duty or not.

"In the event that you are getting through the air terminal and you need to leave Nigeria, we ought to have the capacity to realize that this person has not paid his duty and you ought to have the capacity to pay your assessment before you withdraw. We are taking a gander at one e-government and it is conceivable," he expressed.